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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6: The Fruits of Long Endeavors; Atossa's War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In ___________, the quest for the cure for cancer through the study of cancer biology underwent a drastic reorganization. Scientists returned to studying genes.
(a) 1976.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1986.

2. What was the problem with the type of oncologist described in number 77?
(a) He had no real interest in knowing how sick the patients became from treatment.
(b) He enjoyed making his patients sick.
(c) He was not well-educated.
(d) He had no bedside manner.

3. The author discusses lab work, theories, experiments and the potential ____________ causes related to cancer.
(a) Genetic.
(b) Major.
(c) Environmental.
(d) Minor.

4. By the early _________, cancer researchers had split into three feuding camps.
(a) 1940s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1950s.

5. Phyllis Clauson said she felt that the world needed to know what?
(a) Gustafson had never had cancer.
(b) Gustafson was a real person.
(c) People could live with cancer.
(d) Gustafson was still alive and that the treatment all those years ago had been successful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to the resistance of patient involvement, the clinical trials lasted for __________ years.

2. The conference determined that lung cancer could be caused by what?

3. The author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, learned about Carla after she had checked into Massachusetts ______________ Hospital.

4. Several months later Rudolf Virchow, a German researcher, published a case study strikingly similar to Bennett's case. How does Virchow argue with Bennett's theory?

5. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.

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